Data should be deposited in appropriate repositories for the manuscript to be sent for peer review and it should be accessible by the reviewers and editor during review. Except explained why? And if it is reasonable to be so, data needs to be available to the public after the manuscript it has been published.

Compliance with funders policies:

We shall be glad to work with authors to meet their funders policies. Authors may contact us ([email protected]) regarding the same if they need any special arrangements in this case.

Uses of a repository deposit:

Discoverable

Reproducible

Reusable

Reliable

Updates:

If under any circumstances the data need to be moved to new link (changes in repository policies or change of repository itself) then such updates should be informed to the publisher and the changes are to be updated accordingly.

Updates can also mean the data expanded after publication. Such data update can also be mentioned in the appropriate section of published manuscript.

Data citation:

Proper citation should be provided for data used as datasets, including in which article they were used previously if they have been used already.